Emily Dickinson - There Is a Solitude of Space
I think what she’s saying in these lines is that society can
provide a solitude of space, that in the sea of humanity, you
can find the fact you can get lost in the crowd. to be alone
amongst the many. Then there is the solitude of death, which is a
removal from society entirely and the perpetual solitude of the
grave...but such a state may lack awareness. So she says that all these
types of solitude, when compared with that profounder site, "That
polar privacy", which is "A soul admitted to itself" -- you'll find a
different kind of solitude...one that possesses "Finite infinity." The
key here is a "soul admitted to itself"...meaning when you allow your
soul, your inner self, to look inside itself, to truly be "with" itself,
you'll understand the true nature of solitude, of being truly alone,
without the illusion of being "with" any one or anything thing.
Dickinson is being metaphysical here, dealing with a sense of
solitude, whether from someone close to her dying, leaving, or simply
ignoring what she thinks, says or does. She deals with it by analyzing
what being alone is all about, and ends with the realization that we
are all alone, and once we understand how alone we really are, will
never feel alone when we're amongst others and don't have to be by
ourselves, within ourselves, looking at that finite infinity of space
we call the soul.
This poem show forever-ness and finite infinity space.
Themes in Dickinson’s poetry A few themes occupied the poet:
love, nature, doubt and faith, suffering, death, immortality - these
John Donne has called the great granite obsessions of
Humankind. Love, though she was lonely and isolated, Emily
appears to have loved deeply; perhaps only those who have &
quot, loved and lost and quot; can love, with an intensity and
desire which can never be fulfilled in the reality of the lovers'
touch. Nature, A fascination with nature consumed Emily. She
provide a solitude of space, that in the sea of humanity, you
can find the fact you can get lost in the crowd. to be alone
amongst the many. Then there is the solitude of death, which is a
removal from society entirely and the perpetual solitude of the
grave...but such a state may lack awareness. So she says that all these
types of solitude, when compared with that profounder site, "That
polar privacy", which is "A soul admitted to itself" -- you'll find a
different kind of solitude...one that possesses "Finite infinity." The
key here is a "soul admitted to itself"...meaning when you allow your
soul, your inner self, to look inside itself, to truly be "with" itself,
you'll understand the true nature of solitude, of being truly alone,
without the illusion of being "with" any one or anything thing.
Dickinson is being metaphysical here, dealing with a sense of
solitude, whether from someone close to her dying, leaving, or simply
ignoring what she thinks, says or does. She deals with it by analyzing
what being alone is all about, and ends with the realization that we
are all alone, and once we understand how alone we really are, will
never feel alone when we're amongst others and don't have to be by
ourselves, within ourselves, looking at that finite infinity of space
we call the soul.
This poem show forever-ness and finite infinity space.
Themes in Dickinson’s poetry A few themes occupied the poet:
love, nature, doubt and faith, suffering, death, immortality - these
John Donne has called the great granite obsessions of
Humankind. Love, though she was lonely and isolated, Emily
appears to have loved deeply; perhaps only those who have &
quot, loved and lost and quot; can love, with an intensity and
desire which can never be fulfilled in the reality of the lovers'
touch. Nature, A fascination with nature consumed Emily. She